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(No Model.)

J. LAMONT.

PACKING FOR BOTTLES, JARS, &c.

No. 268,247. Patented Nov. 28, 1882.

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JAMES LAMONT, or BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO ROBERT GAIR, or

' NEW YORK, N. Y.

PACKING FOR BOTTLES, JARS, 80C.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 268,247, dated November 28, 1882.

Application filed September 27, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beitknown that I, JAMES LAMONT, of Brooklyn, in Kings county, and State of New York, have invented a certain Improvement in Packing for Bottles, Jars, &c., of which the following is a specification.

The object of my improvement is to produce a packing-box for bottles, jars, &c.', which may be sold in a complete state ready for use, and yet may be folded flat to economize space in transportation.

The improvement consists in the combination, with two or more pieces or portions of paper, card-board, or analogous material corrugated transversely to their length, and having the corrugations so arranged that the salient or convex corrugations of one piece will be opposite the receding or concave corrugations of another piece, of flexible material uniting the several pieces or portions.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a packing box embodying my improve|nent,and Fig.2 is an end view of the same folded.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in both figures.

A A designate two pieces of packing material severally consisting, as here shown, of a sheet of corrugated paper, card, or analogous material, and an exterior sheet of smooth or uncorrugated paper, card, or analogous material affixed thereto by paste or other adhesive V rugations will intermatch.

substance. The corrugations extend transversely to the sheets, or, in other words, transversely to the length of the box to be formed. Each otthe pieces A A is longitudinally creased or scored to enable it to fold or bend suitably to form two sides of a box. The adjacent edges of the pieces are, as here shown, united by strips of comparatively thin paper or analogous material B, suitably flexible and strong. The corrugations of the pieces are so disposed that the salient or convex corrugations of each piece are opposite the receding or concave corrugations of the other piece. Hence when the pieces are folded together along the strips B their cor- Owing to this the box may be folded in much less space than otherwise would be possible. Moreover, the corrugations are protected and stayed or braced by intcrmatching in the manner described.

While I have only shown the box as made of two pieces united at their edges by flexible material, I may make it of a single piece of material having opposite portions reversely corrugated and an'intermediate plain or uncorrugated portion. This uncorrugated portion would constitute a flexible material unitin g the reverse] y-corru gated portions or pieces. The edges of the material would have to be united by a separate piece of flexible material.

The connecting of the edges of the packing material by separate flexible material may be done before the packing material is cut to form boxes. In other words, long strips of the packing material may have their edges thus united,

and may subsequently be cut into lengths to form boxes. In any case one or both thejoints between the two portions or pieces composing the box may be formed by wrapping and pasting a label or covering around the box. Such label or covering may be extended beyond the box to form flaps, which may be folded in to cover the top and bottom of a bottle or jar arranged within the box.

While I have only shown my invention as embodied in a four-sided box, it is obvious that it may be embodied in boxes having other nu mbers of sides.

Boxes embodying my improvement are as desirable as wrappers as concerns their transportation before use, and they are far more desirable in use, as no skill is required to pack in them the bottles, jars, &c., for which they areintended, and much time is saved in placing the same in the boxes as compared with applying an ordinary wrapper to them.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with two or more pieces or portions of paper, card, or analogous material severally corrugated transvcrsely to their length, and in such manner that the salient or convex corrugations of each will be opposite the receding or concave corrugations of the other, of flexible material uniting the said pieces or portions together, substantially as specified.

J. LAMONT. Witnesses:

JAMES R. BOWEN, FREDK. HAYNES. 

